2001 a space odyssey was another I found myself yawning through, although I did like the Daisy, Daisy scene.
I really liked that movie. However, I have to tell you the funny reaction from my father. I begged him to watch it. I told him it was a great science fiction movie. Okay, after weeks of urging, he saw it and later angrily gave me this review:
"You are you an idiot!!! Stupidest damn movie I ever saw. First a bunch of monkeys are fighting each other and then one of them tosses a stick in the air that turns into a space ship. Then we see people landing on the moon and later a high pitch loud sound hits their eardrums and for some reason a couple of guys are on another spaceship going to Jupiter and a computer hijacks them.
"Then one of the space guys turns into a old man and the movie ends with a baby inside of a bubble circling Earth. It made absolutely NO SENSE and you are an IDIOT for talking me into wasting my time watching it!!!"
You needed to be high to appreciate 2001.
Then, the Stargate scene ... whoa.
I thought 2001 was fascinating until the third act when Bowman goes through the third stage of evolution to become the Starchild.